The changing scenes of life - Fred Secombe

This is the eighth in the popular series set in 1950s South Wales and the first Fred Secombe book to be published in hardback by HarperCollins (previous books in series published in hardback by Michael Joseph). It is full of the oddball characters and entertaining anecdotes that make Fred's books such a delight to read.Fred and his wife Eleanor have now been in Abergele for eight months, Christmas is fast approaching and the challenge is to fill the new church on the Brynfelin estate with a congregation. A hilarious incident with a piano and a sheep lands Fred, not for the first time, in hot water.But times are changing in Fred's life. His father-in-law dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. He watches his wayward young curate Hugh Thomas learn to put his vocation and his fiancee before rugby. And when Fred and Eleanor found a new Gilbert and Sullivan society, they reluctantly decide to relinquish the main parts to younger players. The Pirates of Penzance is their swansong as romantic leads.